Creature Name: Miritan Tigers

General Description: Your average Siberian tiger, except telepathic.

Originally Created by
Kohikari

Special Abilities: Minor communicative telepathy

Oddities: A military experiment; only fifteen in existence: Miraa (female, Raam (male), Giir (male), Puraa (female), Myaa (female), Miir (female), Roh (male), Graayi (female), Siim (male), Piiru (female), Fuur (male), Haamiruu (female; unofficial leader), Yaara (female), Hohmu (male), and Saaya (female). They aren't very close, but they respect each other.

Does this creature need to bond? Yes/No: No, although one may arbitrarily attach itself to a person as a companion.

If yes, when: n/a

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Specific Physical Statistics

Size at birth: Average tiger cub, size of small chubby housecat.
Size at maturity: 500-700 lbs, 8-10 ft long from nose to tail.
Time to maturity: 9 months
Number of wings/arms/legs if a peculiar number: Just four legs.
Scales? Hide? Feathers?: Thick black-striped orange fur with bits of white.
Anything else you can think of: Very strong, fast, and agile.
Eye colors/talents: Golden-yellow slitted eyes, females slightly more intelligent and telepathically stronger than males.

Mental Abilities

How smart are they? Use some kind of comparison: About as intelligent as humans, sentient and able to strategize and think clearly.
Are they particularly good at puzzles, or some sort of brain activity: They aren't very good at puzzles or complex problems, and usually take the simple or easy way without pausing to think. However, when they stop and consider, they can be highly sharp-minded.
Anything else you can think of. Most can be very stubborn.

Breeding

How often can the creature get pregnant?: Hopefully once a year, although so far it has not been proven that the creatures can reproduce. The experiments may have rendered them sterile.
How long between pregnancies?: 2 years
How long is it pregnant?: 4 months
Are all females fertile (barring accidents)?: Yes
Are all males fertile (barring accidents)?: Yes
Is there sex linked traits (like color)?: Males are slightly larger than females.
How many offspring can the creature have at once?: 3-4 cubs

Other: Miritans are neither pacifists nor sadists, and rarely take any side but their own. They are not very social.

History: Future Earth, about 2150, when military scientists bred certain species to be sentient, like the Siberian Tiger, so that they would have an even more powerful army. To the tigers the scientists gave enhanced psychic abilities for communication purposes (they couldn't figure out how to fix the vocal cords to add speech), and advanced intelligence. Well, advanced for tigers, at least. The project turned on them when the newly christened Miritan Tigers, now able to strategize, decided that being told to kill masses of people for no reason was pointless, and also that the scientists were much smaller and weaker than them. Most went back to the wilderness preserves, protected by the Environmental Federation.